CHAPTER XXXIV 

 KENNEDY'S EXPEDITION, 1848, continued 



VOYAGE OF THE "ARIEL" 

 TRACES OF KENNEDY AND THE " PUDDING-PAN HILL " PARTY 



CAPTAIN DOBSON TAKES " ARIEL " IN SEARCH OF SURVIVORS OF EXPEDITION, 24 

 DECEMBER, 1848. JACKEY-]ACKEY ON BOARD. DR. VALLACK ELICITS STORY OF 

 FORLORN HOPE FROM JACKEY-]ACKEY. NATIVES IN CANOE NEAR GILMORE 

 BANK. ONE BOARDS " ARIEL," is RECOGNISED BY JACKEY- JACKET AS ONE OF 

 KENNEDY'S MURDERERS, AND is DETAINED. ONE OF THE BLACKS SPEARS BARRETT 

 AND is SHOT. EVIDENCE THAT KENNEDY'S BODY HAD BEEN EXHUMED. VOYAGE 

 SOUTHWARD RESUMED. BLIGH'S PUDDING-PAN HILL PASSED. HANNIBAL BAY. 

 CAMISADE CREEK. SHELBURNE BAY. JACKEY-]ACKEY RECOGNISES KENNEDY'S 

 " PUDDING-PAN HILL." LANDINGS. CANOE FOUND CONTAINING PART OF A 

 CLOAK BELONGING TO THE THREE MEN LEFT AT SUPPOSED PUDDING-PAN HILL. 

 UNABLE TO REACH THIS HILL. MUST PUSH ON FOR PASCOE CAMP. " ARIEL " 

 REACHES MOUTH OF PASCOE. CARRON AND GODDARD RESCUED AND TAKEN ON 

 BOARD. 



THE Schooner " Ariel " (72 tons), 1 under the command of 

 CAPTAIN DOBSON, having on board DR. ADONIAH VALLACK 

 and BARRETT, who were to join Kennedy's party, was 

 chartered by the Government of New South Wales to 

 await Kennedy's arrival and supply him with provisions for the 

 return journey. The ship left Sydney on 2nd October, 1848, and 

 reached PORT ALBANY on the 2jth of the same month. Although 

 the period for which she had been chartered had expired, she was 

 still waiting when JACKET- JACKET ARRIVED on 2yd December with 

 the news of the fate of the expedition. 



The story of the rescue of the survivors is contained in (i) a 

 STATEMENT BT CAPTAIN DOBSON, printed with Carron's Narrative 

 but not reprinted in the Voyage oj the " Rattlesnake" (2) a STATE- 

 MENT BT DR. VALLACK, printed with Carron's Narrative and re- 

 printed in the " Rattlesnake" (3) a few NOTES BT DR. JOHN MAC- 

 GILLIVRAT in the Voyage oj the " Rattlesnake" Captain Dobson's 

 Statement is short and bald and he evidently delegated to Dr. 

 Vallack the task of writing the history of his voyage. 



JACKET-JACKET was seen from the ship about 8 a.m. on 



1 Number of hands not stated. One of the crew was named Parker and another 

 is referred to by Dr. Vallack as " Thomas " and " Tom," but it is not clear whether this 

 was a Christian name or a surname. 



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